Agenda

Friday, 4 July

9:00

1st session - Promoting Political Reform in the Middle East and the Mediterranean 
Speakers: Roberto Aliboni & Laura Guazzone, Istituto Affari Internazionali-IAI, Rome
Discussant: Ian O. Lesser, Pacific Council on International Policy, Los Angeles

11:15

2nd session - Reconstruction and Economic Development in the Mediterranean and
Middle East in a Transatlantic Perspective
Speaker: Tim Niblock, University of Exeter
Discussant: Samir A. Makdisi, American University of Beirut

14:00

3rd session - The Palestinian Reform
Speaker: Mohammed Dajani, American Studies, Al-Quds University, East Jerusalem
Discussant: Daniel Neep, Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies-RUSI, London

16:15

4th session - Nation-building in the Greater Middle East
Speaker: Marina Ottaway, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington DC
Discussant: Reinhardt Rummel, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik-SWP, Berlin 

Saturday 5 July

9:00

5th session - Third Party Intervention in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Speaker: Jarat Chopra, Thomas Watson Jr Institute for International Studies, Brown University
Discussant: Mohammed Ibrahim Shaker, Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs, Cairo

11:15

Closing session - Round Table
The NATO Mediterranean Dialogue in the Euro-American Context: 
Building Transatlantic Consensus for Security and Stability in the Mediterranean and the Middle East

Closing Address: Jean Fournet, NATO Assistant Secretary General for Public Diplomacy, Brussels

Panel: Alvaro de Vasconcelos, Instituto de Estudos Estratégicos e Internacionais-IEEI, Lisbon
Hisham Kassem, Cairo Times
Ian O. Lesser, Pacific Council on International Policy, Los Angeles
Nicola de Santis, NATO Division of Public Diplomacy, Brussels
Stefano Silvestri, Istituto Affari Internazionali-IAI, Rome